ABA Criminal Justice Section Annual Meeting 08 CLE Click here for complete Agenda www.abanet.org/crimjust/calendar/2008annual.doc It’s Time for Justice: How to Handle Financial Exploitation of the Elderly Friday, August 8, 2008, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., Conference Room K, Executive Conference Center, Sheraton New York Moderator: Lori G. Levin, Executive Director,…
From the American Library Association (ALA).* Midwest libraries endure rising floodwaters “Days of sandbagging could not keep the Cedar River out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Overflowing barriers on June 12, it deluged more than 100 blocks of the city’s eastern side, including the Cedar Rapids Public Library (a YouTube video,…
The ABA Section of Science and Technology Law has just published the first edition of SCITECH e-Merging News, an electronic newsletter to be published quarterly. See theTable of Contents for the first issue follow: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Practice Edge BioBlurb The Biotechnology Law Committee’s weekly update publishes a roundup of…
Street Legal: A Guide to Pre-trial Criminal Procedure for Police, Prosecutors, and Defenders By Ken Wallentine This 396-page book provides specific guidance on pre-trial criminal procedure of all sorts, and explains in understandable terms “what you can do and what you can’t do” under 4th Amendment search and seizure law.…
David Badertscher* How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) published the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources (Authentication Report) that answers this very important and timely question. The comprehensive report examines and draws conclusions from the results of…
Register Citations from 8-1-07 to 6-11-08 (Cumulative) The following citator compiled by James R. Sahlem, Principal Law Librarian of the New York Supreme Court at Buffalo, is intended to “fill the gap” in NYCRR, both print and electronic format. It covers the most recent ten-month period. It is designed to…
TOP STORIES: U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Have Habeas Rights Jun 12, 2008, 09:49 am CDT “The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a stunning defeat to the Bush administration in a ruling that gives detainees at Guantanamo Bay a right to challenge their detention in federal courts……
Bonnie Shucha has asked us to “spead the word” about the exciting Web 2.0 Challenge that is being sponsored by the Computer Services Special Interest Group of the American Association of Law Libraries. We are happy to do so. Here is part of Bonnie’s announcement: Are you interested in learning…
From: Findlaw Breaking Legal Documents, June 12, 2008. Justices Rule Guantanamo Bay Detainees Can File Suit in Federal Courts BOUMEDIENE V. BUSH “(U.S. Supreme Court, June 12, 2008) – In a close 5-4 majority decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees being held by the Pentagon at Guantanamo Bay…
From Goro Toshima: I wanted to alert you to my award-winning documentary, A Hard Straight, which shows what it’s really like to make the radical transition from prison life to society, by following the post-release stories of three people in close and unflinching detail … …One spent his childhood in…